University Professor for Educational Sciences University of Innsbruck

The Institute for Psychosocial Intervention and Communication Studies at the Faculty of Education of the University of Innsbruck invites applications for the position of an

UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR

FOR

EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES WITH FOCUS ON PEDAGOGIC PROFESSIONALIZATION AND COUNSELLING

in the form of an open-ended civil law employment contract with the University.

DUTIES:

Representation of the subject “educational sciences with focus on pedagogic professionalization and counselling in research and teaching”. The professor's duties focus on researching pedagogic professionalization and counselling as specific forms of professional pedagogic (inter)action. This involves both diverse formats and applications in a variety of pedagogic, life-course-specific areas.

Duties in research and teaching include:

theories of educational respective pedagogic professionalism along with counselling theories

analyses of the interplay between theory and practice under consideration of reflexive inquiry in educational sciences

ethics in professional education along with the foundation of counselling in critical social and social-philosophical theory

professionalization history in the educational sciences

professionalization of pedagogic counselling and future perspectives of professionalization

In teaching, the future professor needs to contribute to the subject area on all three levels of the Bologna System (B.A., M.A., PhD), particularly in the fields of "Communication and Professional Skills" as part of the bachelor programme and "Professionalization and Professional Skills" of the master programme in educational sciences. Concepts of research-oriented learning play a central role in the faculty's overall teaching philosophy.

Participation in academic administration is seen as a matter of course.

Qualification requirements:

a) pertinent, finished doctoral degree from an Austrian or equivalent international

The University of Innsbruck aims to increase the number of women in academic positions and invites qualified women to apply. If applicants have the same qualification, applications from women will be given preference.

Application documents need to include: a curriculum vitae with a description of the applicant's scientific and occupational career, a list of scientific publications, presentations as well as other scientific work and projects, a description of finished, current and planned research activities as well the five most important accomplishments / publications.

The University of Innsbruck expressly invites scientists to apply who have not held a previous professorship. Remuneration is in line with salary category A1 (professorship) of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, i.e., for a full-term professorship a minimum salary of € 4891.10/month (14 times). On top of that, the University offers numerous, attractive employee benefits (http://www.uibk.ac.at/universitaet/zusatzleistungen/).

The full, authoritative text in German (published in the official bulletin of the University of 15th of March, 2017) as well as additional information on the current status of the application process may be found at: